Lecturer\u2003\u2003The Open University\u00a0of Israel, 2012<\/p>\n
Senior Lecturer\u00a0 \u00a0 College of Management Academic Studies, 2023<\/p>\n
Education<\/strong> Research Interests<\/strong> Across these projects, Segal emphasizes that media and maps are not passive reflections of the world but active agents in shaping spatial, cultural, and political understandings.<\/p>\n Courses Taught<\/strong> DCS\/History 305\u2003Digital Maps, Space, and Place DCS\/History 2XX\u2003Old Newspapers, New Questions: Digital Perspectives on the Press and Local History Selected Publications<\/strong> Segal, Z. \u201cBetween Science and Commercialism: Maps in a 19th-Century Hebrew Journal.\u201d\u00a0The Communication Review<\/em>\u00a027.2 (2024): 197\u2013218.\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/10714421.2024.2331031<\/span><\/a><\/span> Zef Segal, \u201cFrom a Local Periodical to a Global Enterprise: Ha-Me\u2019asef, 1896- 1914\u201d,\u00a0Journal of Historical Network Research<\/i>\u00a06.1 (2021), 192-219.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25517\/jhnr.v6i1.89<\/a><\/p>\n Zef Segal & Oren Soffer, \u201cOne Journal, One Decade, 3,797,592 Words: Computational Analysis of HaTzfira\u2019s Discourse (1874\u20131883),\u201d\u00a0Journal of Jewish Studies<\/i>\u00a072.2 (2021), 369-396.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18647\/3508\/jjs-2021<\/a>
\nBA\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003The Open University of Israel, History, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies (2003)
\nBSc\u2003\u2003\u2003\u00a0 Tel Aviv University, Mathematics (2005)
\nMA\u2003\u2003\u2003\u2003Tel Aviv University, Philosophy (2005)
\nMSc\u2003\u2003\u2003\u00a0 Tel Aviv University, Mathematics (2008)
\nPhD\u2003\u2003\u2003\u00a0 Tel Aviv University, History (2013)<\/p>\n
\nDr. Segal studies the interconnections of media, mobility, and spatial thought in the 19th century, with an emphasis on journalism and cartography. His work integrates traditional historical approaches with digital and computational methods, such as GIS, network analysis, and textual reuse detection, to explore how communication and transportation infrastructures shaped perceptions of space and identity.<\/p>\n\n
\nSegal\u2019s project\u00a0Periodicals in Motion<\/em>\u00a0uses computational tools to analyze textual reuse and networked relationships across 19th-century Hebrew newspapers. This research highlights the role of the Hebrew press in constructing a national movement while simultaneously shaping transnational cultural exchanges.<\/li>\n
\nHis project\u00a0Maps on the Move<\/em>\u00a0investigates how depictions of motion\u2014winds, ocean currents, migration, and transportation\u2014were integrated into 19th- and 20th-century European and American cartography. This work sheds light on how visual conventions of movement shaped political and cultural geographies.<\/li>\n
\nSegal\u2019s ongoing collaborative project applies computational analysis to the U.S. press (1841\u20131884), examining patterns of textual diffusion and divergence during a period of national consolidation and sectional tension.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\nDCS\/History 212\u2003Digital History Methods<\/p>\n
\nDCS\/History 375\u2003Network Analysis<\/p>\n
\nDCS\/History 3XX\u2003Mental Geographies with LLMs: Spatial Analysis of Mark Twain\u2019s Travel Writing<\/p>\n
\nSegal, Z. & Nurit Melnik.\u00a0Computational Literacy for the Humanities: Mathematics and Programming in Context.<\/em>\u00a0Routledge, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4324\/9781003502814<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\nSegal, Z.\u00a0The Political Fragmentation of Germany: Formation of German States by Infrastructures, Maps, and Movement, 1815\u20131866.<\/em>\u00a0Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-19827-5<\/span><\/a><\/span>
\nSegal, Z. & Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (eds.).\u00a0Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion.<\/em>\u00a0Amsterdam University Press, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9789048542956<\/a>
\nZef Segal, \u201cThe Fantastic Geographies of Ikhtayyi: On Space and Place in Emile Habibi\u2019s Novel\u201d in Christian Lenz, Sarah Neef and Kristin Aubel (eds.), Spaces and Places in the Fantastic: Exploring Fantastic Geographies (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025), 53-76.<\/p>\n
\nSegal, Z. \u201cFake News in the Early Hebrew Newspaper: Sensationalist Journalism within an Objective Journal, HaTzfira 1874.\u201d\u00a0Journalism History<\/em>\u00a049 (2023): 300\u2013315.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00947679.2023.2266175<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\nZef Segal & Oren Soffer, \u201cFrom Weekly to Daily: Computational Analysis of Periodical Time Cycles,\u201d\u00a0Journalism Studies<\/i>\u00a021.14 (2020), 1952-1972.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1461670X.2020.1807394<\/a>\u00a0“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1641,"featured_media":7577,"template":"","class_list":["post-7317","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7317\/revisions\/7579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}